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HISTORY Mark Chew HISTORY Mark Chew

Inside an expedition to locate the Beagle’s lost anchors

Entering a maze of muddy islands, the mouth of the Victoria is a vast delta within the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf that does not easily explain itself to mariners. We are in the 65-foot Island Explorer, decked out for group fishing tours but now temporarily repurposed in an attempt to locate two anchors that were cut free from the Beagle at a point on the river named Holdfast Reach 180 years earlier.

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ADVENTURE, FLOTSAM Mark Chew ADVENTURE, FLOTSAM Mark Chew

Eight Bells : Tim Severin

…Somewhere in this spectrum fits Tim Severin who died three weeks ago in West Cork, Ireland. In my teenage years I read “The Brendan Voyage” a few times, relishing his account of both the research and the execution of his greatest adventure…

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